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ID: 2097188
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2097188
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ferney (inhabited place)  Ferney (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 19 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.3167  decimal degrees
Long: 098 05 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -98.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Lake Geneva; established by French author Voltaire when in 1758 he bought the seigneury of Ferney between France & Switzerland to escape legal proceedings; he established a colony of potters & watchmakers, around which the town grew.

Names:
Ferney (preferred,C,V)
Ferney-Voltaire (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of South Dakota (state)  ............  South Dakota (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Brown (county)  ................  Brown (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Ferney (inhabited place)  ....................  Ferney (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 18th cen.
village (C)
craftsman settlement (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ferney..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46002308
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 395
Ferney-Voltaire..........  [VP]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 292
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 292
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46002308
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 395
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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